{"id":1728,"date":"2014-07-07T16:01:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T20:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2014-07-18T20:17:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T00:17:40","slug":"not-exactly-the-plan-for-today-but-a-fun-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1728","title":{"rendered":"Not exactly the plan for today…but a fun time!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_1046\"<\/a>Today we had booked a tour similar to Saturday’s with the same company. \u00c2\u00a0We were to see Windsor Castle, The Roman Baths and Pump Room and Stonehenge. \u00c2\u00a0We were picked up by the shuttle service at the meeting point and brought to the central location- Victoria Cross Station- and saw lots of people for the same tour. \u00c2\u00a0Too many in fact. \u00c2\u00a0After being shift three times (apparently there were three buses for the said tour), we were left out along with a couple from Australia. \u00c2\u00a0The manager put us in a cab to meet an earlier charter bus at one of their locations. \u00c2\u00a0We got there and they were not helpful. \u00c2\u00a0There was no bus. \u00c2\u00a0There was only the option of a refund or rebooking. \u00c2\u00a0And after some arguing a cab ride back to where we started from- they actually were not going to do that!<\/p>\n

So we went with the rebooking and decided to switch tomorrow’s plans with todays’s plans. \u00c2\u00a0We went to Oxford!<\/p>\n

\"IMG_1058\"<\/a>We took a bus about an hour north west of the city. \u00c2\u00a0It was a cool place to see! \u00c2\u00a0It is of course a college (university) town. \u00c2\u00a0There are lots of bikes everywhere! After a quick lunch at Pizza Hut (had to keep up the travel tradition- we went to one in India too!), we met up with a tour. \u00c2\u00a0You guessed it, a Harry Potter tour. \u00c2\u00a0This was a walking tour that showed off places in Oxford in the movie. \u00c2\u00a0Our tour guide was a lot of fun- a recent Oxford grad taking a “sabbatical” before figuring out what to be when he grows up!<\/p>\n

Aidan loved the trivia and came close to winning the trivia game- a girl from Denmark was a bit quicker. \u00c2\u00a0He even remembered some of the history of London from our tour bus the other day!<\/p>\n

It was an unexpected change in plans but everyone did great going with the flow. \u00c2\u00a0It was a good day to get out of the city- loads of traffic as the Tour de France came through! \u00c2\u00a0Hopefully tomorrow we get to see the places we thought we would see today!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we had booked a tour similar to Saturday’s with the same company. \u00c2\u00a0We were to see Windsor Castle, The Roman Baths and Pump Room and Stonehenge. \u00c2\u00a0We were picked up by the shuttle service at the meeting point and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}